"Krea has offered me the opportunity to explore all my interests in the same place, and has changed the way I approach problems and come up with impactful solutions".
Aishwarya Sivaramakrishnan
Cohort of 2022
Passionate about creating measurable social impact in the field of education, and dreams of moving to Germany and owning a library
The psychology Major at Krea will provide a strong foundation for students through a range of theories and pluralistic approaches undergirding psychology as a modern scientific discipline. This programme will present to the students both mainstream and newly emerging critical perspectives in the field. The unique interwoven approach at Krea will allow students to explore the deeply interconnected strands of theories beyond the environs of psychology. With a strong focus on being able to engage such disciplines as philosophy, history and social studies, the programme will provide Krea students a first year of carefully thought out core and skills courses including ethics, data analytics, writing, philosophical perspectives, social and historical concepts, creative expressions, computational thinking that informs that deeply informs the psychology curriculum. In other words, students will be actively encouraged to bring in their knowledge and experiences from other disciplines and courses to bear upon their learning process in psychology.
Our overarching purpose is to equip students with a broad and humane perspective for a life of inquiry, creativity, and critical and analytical thinking. This will be achieved through critically informed and reflective teaching, research and community responsiveness.
The Approach
The Psychology major at Krea is designed to train students not just to question and put studies to scrutiny, but also to develop a robust understanding of what works and how we build testable hypotheses to think about human behaviour and mind. The guiding principles of the curriculum development are contextualised research, ethical rigour, scientific integrity and decolonising psychological science.
Each trimester of the undergraduate program in psychology is carefully curated to ensure that the courses offered in that term are in critical conversations with each other. In the process, students will become familiar with the diverse streams of thought and studies in psychology. Exploring, understanding, critiquing and building psychological thought, theories, and methods within psychology and from related disciplines, the programme will provide students a foundation to work in their third year in specific streams of psychology and develop a research project for their capstone thesis. Krea students will learn the fundamentals of evidence-based psychological science, parsing credible sources, combining qualitative and quantitative research methods, running simple quasi-experimental studies, developing an ethics of field work (including learning the process of getting studies approved by ethics committees), learning to write about psychology within the academic conventions of an APA/MLA format, and gaining enough critical knowledge and creativity to craft journalistic pieces for public understanding based on research-based studies without being reductive or misleading about the data and/or findings.
Programme Details
Graduation Requirements
Courses
Faculty
Careers
Graduation Requirements
In the Psychology Honours degree, a student will earn 60 credits by completing thirteen courses as well as a capstone project. The division of course-work is as follows:
Nine required courses (36 credits)
Four electives (16 credits)
Capstone thesis (8 credits) OR two additional electives (8 credits)
In the Psychology Minor programme, a student will earn 28 credits and complete seven courses. The division of course-work is as follows:
Four required courses (16 credits)
Three electives (12 credits)
In qualifying for a concentration in Psychology, a student will earn 16 credits, by completing any four courses listed in the Psychology programme.
Please note: All PSYC courses are 4 credit courses.
Courses
Required Courses
Sample Electives
Introduction to Psychology
Brain and Behaviour
Statistics for Psychologists
Qualitative Approaches
Experimental Research Design
Cognitive Development
Social Psychology
Introduction to Clinical Psychology
Writing like a Psychologist
Thinking like a Psychologist
The Psychology of Sexuality and Gender
History and Systems of Psychology
Neuroscience through the lens of History
Consumer, Psychology, Economy
Environment and Psyche
Motherhood, Family, and Childcare in India
Testing and Measurement in Psychology
Culture and Subjectivity
Political Psychology
Community Mental Health
Child and Adolescent Psychology
The Question of Reality in Literature and Psychoanalysis
Faculty
Akanksha Adya
Assistant Professor of Psychology (Visiting Faculty)
Akanksha Adya
Assistant Professor of Psychology (Visiting Faculty)
Anupama Sathyamurthy
Assistant Professor of Psychology (Visiting Faculty)
Anupama Sathyamurthy
Assistant Professor of Psychology (Visiting Faculty)
Kimberly Lacroix
Assistant Professor of Psychology (Visiting Faculty)
Kimberly Lacroix
Assistant Professor of Psychology (Visiting Faculty)
Meetali Devgun
Assistant Professor of Psychology (Visiting Faculty)
Meetali Devgun
Assistant Professor of Psychology (Visiting Faculty)
Pooja Nair
Assistant Professor of Psychology (Visiting Faculty)
Pooja Nair
Assistant Professor of Psychology (Visiting Faculty)
Rakshi Rath
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Rakshi Rath
Assistant Professor of Psychology
PhD, University of St. Andrews
Ranjini Krishnan
Assistant Professor of Psychology (Visiting Faculty)
Ranjini Krishnan
Assistant Professor of Psychology (Visiting Faculty)
Sabah Siddiqui
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Sabah Siddiqui
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Shyam Kumar Sudhakar
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
Shyam Kumar Sudhakar
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
Shruti Chakravarty
Assistant Professor of Psychology (Visiting Faculty)
Shruti Chakravarty
Assistant Professor of Psychology (Visiting Faculty)
Soumyajit Bhar
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Soumyajit Bhar
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Careers
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Legal researcher
Child Development specialist
HR Manager
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Market research specialist
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Private counseling firm
Special needs assessment agency
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Hospitals / private clinic
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Mental Health Advocacy & Policy research organization